Sleeping Giants Matt Rivitz is the co-founder of Sleeping Giants, which is best known for its social media campaign to persuade companies to remove advertisements from outlets that publish far-right propaganda and promote white supremacist views. Rivitz co-founded Sleeping Giants shortly after the 2016 Presidential election. I was eager to talk to Mr. Rivitz and ask him more questions about his career and the work he's been doing as part of Sleeping Giants. How did you come up with the idea for Sleeping Giants? After the 2016 election, I became acutely aware of the growing problem of hate both online and off. One of the people who seemed to be pushing these ideas was Steve Bannon, who was Donald Trump's campaign manager and also the President of Breitbart News. When I looked at Breitbart for the first time, I was totally disgusted with a lot of the articles that were on the site like, "Hoist it High and Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage.&
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